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New Law Ensures Equivalent Access to Digital Tools for All of Maryland’s K-12 Students
May 5, 2022 | Liz ZogbyTrace Center Director and iSchool professor Jonathan Lazar contributed to and testified in support of the bill to bring an accessibilit …
Jewish American Heritage at UMD
May 2, 2022 | Hayleigh MooreThis month, UMD recognizes the impact of Jewish Americans at the University and beyond. Here the iSchool compiles a list of resources, …
Can a Strategy Game Help AI Learn to Spot Scammers?
April 27, 2022 | Maria HerdiSchool Associate Professor, Dr. Jordan Boyd-Graber, joins team of researchers awarded $1M to support U.S. Military’s cybersecurity f …
Dual video conferencing in the proposed remote study design. While interacting with a testbed on a smartphone, a blind participant wearing smart glasses communicates with the experimenter through dual video conferencing. Two video streams are being sent to the experimenter: one from the participant’s smart glasses (a pair of Vuzix blade with the camera located on the top right corner) and the other from a laptop camera facing the participant on the same Zoom call.
Covid-19 Pandemic Moves Research on Assistive Technologies From the Lab to People’s Homes
April 26, 2022 | Liz ZogbyDr. Hernisa Kacorri’s research on object recognizers with blind participants required a pivot to remote usability testing, leading he …
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Online-Only Services Offer Safety, But May Limit Access
April 20, 2022 | Liz ZogbyAs a result of the covid-19 pandemic, interaction with websites and apps sometimes become the only way to access certain goods and serv …
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iSchool Faculty and Staff Join Global Team to Launch New Publication
April 15, 2022 | Hayleigh Moore"Including Disability" offers innovative approaches to eliminating systemic barriers and gives voice to disabled people.
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Improving Fairness and Trust in AI Used for College Admissions and Language Translation
April 15, 2022 | Tom VentsiasiSchool Assistant Professor Dr. Ge Gao joins $1.6M NSF/Amazon-funded project to develop algorithms and protocols that can improve the e …
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(Video) SoDa Symposium: Universal Adaptability – A Target-Independent Approach to Inference
April 14, 2022 | iSchool News StaffDrs. Christoph Kern and Michael P. Kim present framework for ensuring protections of subpopulations and unbiased algorithmic conclusion …
HCIL Faculty and Students to Participate in CHI 2022
April 12, 2022 | Hayleigh Moore23 members of the Human-Computer Interaction Lab will present their research at prestigious HCI conference.